Education

Catholic librarian sacked for criticising council’s China contract elected as councillor to same local authority

a catholic former librarian has been elected as an independent councillor to the local authority that sacked her for publicly criticising it...

Crowning Our Lady with flowers in May

flowers follow mathematical sequences that make them pleasing to the eye. if you were to ask mathematicians why they are so passionate about...

Fr Robert Verrill OP

The complex moral decision about where to send your child to school

one of the ladies in my group of local mother friends recently expressed horror that her five-year-old daughter had been taught a bible stor...

Olenka Hamilton

'Careless words cost lives' - reflections on recent statements from the Pontifical Academy for Life

a number of news outlets have picked up the story that archbishop vincenzo paglia, president of the pontifical academy for life, has appeare...

David Albert Jones

What life is really like for Ukraine's children and youth

(in the cellar of a kyiv kindergarten, children take shelter during an air raid | genya savilov / afp via getty) in my twenty-five years as ...

Dutch legalise euthanasia for primary school-age children

euthanasia is to be extended to primary school-age children in the netherlands, the dutch government has announced. health minister ernst ku...

Paul Johnson 1928-2023

as a young journalist, i remember listening to the legendary paul johnson at el vino, fleet street’s famed tavern. paul dispensed merry wisd...

Fauré's Requiem – Facing death through music

michael white praises a production of fauré’s requiem accompanied by sky burial, and a powerful opera about a nun visiting death row. gabrie...

The problem with a multi-faith coronation

when one of my previous bosses, a university vice-chancellor, wanted to show his contempt for a problem, he would dismiss it as a “theologic...

Proposed laws on embryo experimentation and fertility treatment are rushing us headlong into a Brave New World

(the manager of bioart fertility clinics lab prepares thawed blastocysts during an in-vitro fertilisation process in johannesburg, on februa...

David Albert Jones